☞ REMEMBER: GIBB'S DINER OF MANHATTANVILLE

Harlem Bespoke:  Another history post we did over 10 years ago at the start of blog was about West Market Diner (shuttered 2004) in the planned Manhattanville campus footprint.  A blog reader mentioned that their family used to own the diner and shared amazing photos with some insight on the forgotten past of the neighborhood.  The diner building has since been demolished to make way for the new Columbia University campus.

FACADE INSTALLED AT 600 WEST 125TH STREET

Harlem Bespoke: What looks like a luxury condo building rising quickly at 600 West 125th Street is actualy student housing for Columbia University at the Manhattanville campus by the elevated Broadway subway station. This appears to be one of those situations that the new development is installing facade details before even topping off. From the looks of the massive crane that is still on site, there appears to be many more floors to go. Check out our past post from 2021 when the rendering was first revealed on the plywood out front: LINK

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CONTEMPORARY CUBAN ART AT THE WALLACH

Harlem Bespoke: Over the last few decades, the contemporary art world in Cuba has undergone various changes including increases in the political and cultural agency of the artist, the emergence of unofficial “underground” exhibition spaces and practices, and surges of tourism and foreign interest in Cuban art.

MORE CONSTRUCTION IN MANHATTANVILLE AND 125TH

Harlem Bespoke:  The foundation work has finished up at the former McDonald's site at the corner of 125th Street at the corner of Broadway and now the new dorm tower for Columbia University will be rising up in the next few months.  Oddly enough, this residential development is the only construction currently happening at the Manhttanville grounds and other campus buildings appear to be on hold at this point in time.  Check out our past post for more on what is coming to this corner of West Harlem: LINK

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ANOTHER UPTOWN LOCATION FOR FIELDTRIP

Harlem Bespoke: Chef Joseph Johnson started up Fieldtrip as a fast casual Harlem eatery back in 2019 on Lenox Avenue by 116th Street and now will be expanding to a second uptown location on the main Columbia University campus in Morningside Heights.

ASIAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN ART AT THE WALLACH

Harlem Bespoke: Dead Lecturer/distant relative: Notes from the Woodshed, 1950-1980 focuses on works by Asian American and African American artists whose approaches to abstraction provided alternatives to prevailing vocabularies for representation and resistance during the social movements of the 1960s and 70s, and for whom the parameters of visibility continue to remain a problem for thought today

ASIAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN ART AT THE WALLACH

Harlem Bespoke: Dead Lecturer/distant relative: Notes from the Woodshed, 1950-1980 focuses on works by Asian American and African American artists whose approaches to abstraction provided alternatives to prevailing vocabularies for representation and resistance during the social movements of the 1960s and 70s, and for whom the parameters of visibility continue to remain a problem for thought today

ASIAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN ART AT THE WALLACH

Harlem Bespoke: Dead Lecturer/distant relative: Notes from the Woodshed, 1950-1980 focuses on works by Asian American and African American artists whose approaches to abstraction provided alternatives to prevailing vocabularies for representation and resistance during the social movements of the 1960s and 70s, and for whom the parameters of visibility continue to remain a problem for thought today